Cesar Chavez was a labor leader who fought for the rights of migrant workers in the United States. Jimmy Hoffa was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1958 to 1971. George Meany was an American labor union leader who served as president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 until his death in 1979. Peter ABEL was a Polish trade union leader and politician who served as the first chairman of Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union. Lech Walesa was a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the first democratically elected President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. Eugene V. Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.